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'I don't know, said Mrs. Knight 'I put her straight about those lumps of sugar. 'Did you tell her to see to the hot-water bottle? 'Bless us, no! Aunt Annie rang the bell. 'Sarah, put a hot-water bottle in your master's bed. And be sure the stopper is quite tight. 'Yes'm. Master's just coming down the street now, mum. Sarah spoke true.
Give me the child, you don't understand anything about it." And the good doctor in the twinkling of an eye had dressed my child. "He looks a Colonel, your boy. Put him into the cradle with . . . now be calm, my dear patient . . . with a hot-water bottle to his feet. Not too much fire, especially in the Colonel's room. Now, no more noise, repose, and every one out of the way."
Sophia wished to summon the doctor, but Constance assured her that the doctor would have nothing new to advise. Constance suffered angelically. The weak and exquisite sweetness of her smile, as she lay in bed under the stress of twinging pain amid hot-water bottles, was amazing to Sophia.
I hissed, in a whisper meant to be discreet, but which roused a camel or two in the ring outside the tents. "Biddell Sir John Biddell," replied the head. "I saw your light, and remembered you had your tent to yourself to-night. Those hot-water bottles have been leaking. There's one at least gone wrong in most of the ladies' tents. The married men have given their beds to girls who are drowned out.
Crossing the road-way, we enter the cold grapery. The foundation of this rests on piers, the border being outside. There are hot-water pipes in this compartment, to be used only to keep out frost. It may, however, be used as a "second" hot grapery.
Riley, in a relieved tone; for on hearing the well-known name of Caspar his men had exchanged meaning looks and smiles, which indicated their belief that the Sheriff might be getting into hot-water.
It may still have an existence in the sacred edifice, or it may have given way, as all cockles must do in the end, whether in churches or private houses, to hot-water arrangements. The pews in St. George's are of the old, fashioned, patriarchal character.
"I am not in such a hurry to go to sleep as you are, thank goodness." Monsieur, suddenly and evidently annoyed, says: "But what is the matter, my dear? You fidget and fidget I want to sleep." He turns over as he speaks. "I fidget! I am simply feeling for my hot-water bottle; you are irritating." "Your hot-water bottle?" is Monsieur's reply, with a grunt.
That is the true life of dolce far niente, but such an ideal existence can only be indulged in during summer time or in late spring; to pass a winter at Sorrento the heaviest of clothing, abundance of overcoats and rugs, hot-water bottles, cough drops, ammoniated quinine and all the usual adjuncts of a northern yule-tide must be carefully provided before-hand by the traveller, who is bold enough to tempt Providence by turning what is essentially a warm weather retreat into a place of winter residence.
Estelle never had been in love with Winn; she had had an agreeable feeling about him, and now she had a disagreeable feeling about him, but neither of these emotions could be compared with beaten-brass hot-water jugs, which she had always meant to have when she was married.
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